[OpenWrt-Devel] Infrastructure question

2008-04-26 Thread Sergey Lapin
Hi, all! Is there make targets to accomplish the following things: * build just one package w/o other stuff, just to check it builds and packages well; * build kernel, for the same reasons? Thanks a lot, S. ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel

[OpenWrt-Devel] some questions about the tools building infrastructure

2008-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm following through the setup for building the various host tools, and i have a few questions. as i read it, the basic makefile on top of which the tools building is based is include/host-build.mk, which defines a number of default actions such as Build/Prepare/Default, Build/Configure/Defa

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] update "README" to mention need for perl?

2008-04-26 Thread Oliver Ertl
> if someone wants to tweak this, shouldn't the top-level README file > mention a need for perl on the build system? The prerequisites checks also for perl. The prereq check is runs automatically for the first time if you run 'make menuconfig'. But you can also use the prereq target (make prere

[OpenWrt-Devel] update "README" to mention need for perl?

2008-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if someone wants to tweak this, shouldn't the top-level README file mention a need for perl on the build system? rday Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lect

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] why does my initial /etc/ipkg.conf file refer to "snapshots"?

2008-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Oliver Ertl wrote: > > > I always compile trunk by myself and put the package repository > > > on a web or FTP server. > > > > so you simply do an all-package build and create your own repo, is > > that what you're saying? that's the direction i'm going in as > > well. > Yes

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] why does my initial /etc/ipkg.conf file refer to "snapshots"?

2008-04-26 Thread Oliver Ertl
> > I always compile trunk by myself and put the package repository on a > > web or FTP server. > > so you simply do an all-package build and create your own repo, is > that what you're saying? that's the direction i'm going in as well. Yes. But I only compile the packages I need. Nothing more.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] why does my initial /etc/ipkg.conf file refer to "snapshots"?

2008-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Oliver Ertl wrote: > I always compile trunk by myself and put the package repository on a > web or FTP server. so you simply do an all-package build and create your own repo, is that what you're saying? that's the direction i'm going in as well. > In the build-system I chan

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] why does my initial /etc/ipkg.conf file refer to "snapshots"?

2008-04-26 Thread Oliver Ertl
I always compile trunk by myself and put the package repository on a web or FTP server. In the build-system I change either package/base-files/files/etc/ipkg.conf to have a new standard ipkg.conf for all targets. For target specific ipkg.conf files change or add the file target/linux//base-file

[OpenWrt-Devel] why does my initial /etc/ipkg.conf file refer to "snapshots"?

2008-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
perhaps i just missed the doc on how to update this, but the freshly-created /etc/ipkg.conf for my brcm47xx build creates a new /etc/ipkg.conf file that contains the following: src snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/brcm47xx/packages dest root / dest ram /tmp however, the